There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.